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To: P-Marlowe
Is Rick Warren that important to you?

No.

But bad teaching should be important to all of us.

Are you a Warren apologist?


Why don't you find yourself a nice cup of decaf coffee somewhere and relax.

18 posted on 11/27/2006 7:54:28 AM PST by Gamecock (Pelagianism is the natural heresy of zealous Christians who are not interested in theology. J.I.P.)
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To: Gamecock
No. But bad teaching should be important to all of us. Are you a Warren apologist?

Once upon a time, Warren was criticized for failing to include any references to "Hell" or "eternal punishment. His apologists claimed that the Apostle Paul's epistles never use the word "Hell", and that since Paul never makes reference to "eternal punishment" or "eternal damnation", Rick Warren was preaching the same gospel as the Apostle Paul and couldn't be faulted.

While those same apologists had no qualms about defending Warren's theology from doctrinally orthodox challenges, they took Warren off their "protected species list" when his politics disagreed with theirs (claiming that the U.S. was engaging in "severe human rights abuses" at Gitmo, etc, among other issues), and they've stopped apologizing for Warren in toto ever since. Well, up until now, anyway.

One has to wonder what's more important to these (former)Warren apologists - theology, or politics?

24 posted on 11/27/2006 8:32:31 AM PST by Alex Murphy
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